Posted on 10/28/2022 8:38:16 AM PDT by nwrep
Key points:
1. Musk has ordered a freeze on changes to Twitter code as of noon Thursday, October 27, per Twitter employees. No code checkins are allowed.
2. On Thursday, October 27, Twitter product leaders showed Tesla software engineers (brought in by Musk) the company code. These Tesla engineers are reviewing the code in preparation for a confidential briefing for Musk early next week.
3. Twitter software engineers are locked out of the code, other than a few exceptions personally approved by Musk.
(Excerpt) Read more at teamblind.com ...
Your understanding of globalism needs enhancement.
International trade is extremely useful to lower costs for all including Americans. The key is trade balance. Allowing china the gigantic trade deficits is the problem.
Elon Musk has created many high paying jobs in United States. He did not build Tesla factory 100% in China like Apple did. Musk is a skilled engineer, smart businessman, and a visionary. Can’t think of anyone in America who has all those skills.
me too. if it’s going to be open source from now on, he can even crowd source it.
Yes...but when offending code is identified,i.e. stiff that implemented the bias ..the person who checked it in can be identified and perhaps fired!
WHEN are we going to begin building the gibbets? WHEN???
Why do you call them "unlucky"?
To me, this sounds like a plum assignment, demonstrating that these engineers are considered the best and most reliable that Elon has. And, it is a hugely interesting project. If any of these "unlucky" engineers want to pass I am certain there will be volunteers to take their place.
There are probably bonuses for discovering any back doors or traps in the code.
I saw a group photo of the kids who oversee what gets pullled
Almost all young hipster males
Surprised me I expected some blue haired fat pasty girls non binary of course
One way Twitter could have covered up their bias is outlined below.
Look at the full article for live links and lots of comments.
P.S. Schneier is not a conservative, but he is committed to online privacy, computer security and unrestricted availability of encryption. And he is opposed to government attempts to subvert these things. (He also is a well-known cryptographer, whose algorithms have been in widespread use.)
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Most deep neural networks are trained by stochastic gradient descent. Now “stochastic” is a fancy Greek word for “random”; it means that the training data are fed into the model in random order.
So what happens if the bad guys can cause the order to be not random? You guessed it—all bets are off. Suppose for example a company or a country wanted to have a credit-scoring system that’s secretly sexist, but still be able to pretend that its training was actually fair. Well, they could assemble a set of financial data that was representative of the whole population, but start the model’s training on ten rich men and ten poor women drawn from that set, then let initialisation bias do the rest of the work.
Does this generalise? Indeed it does. Previously, people had assumed that in order to poison a model or introduce backdoors, you needed to add adversarial samples to the training data. Our latest paper shows that’s not necessary at all. If an adversary can manipulate the order in which batches of training data are presented to the model, they can undermine both its integrity (by poisoning it) and its availability (by causing training to be less effective, or take longer). This is quite general across models that use stochastic gradient descent.
Nice find!
I'm not a mathematician by any means. ;-)
But I've been led to believe that neural nets don't find optimal solutions, they find local minima within a "space". It sounds like that scheme sets the bounds of the "locality" and then trains the net to create rules within that space. Interesting stuff.
How sweet it is!
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